More support for flood appeal

The effort to recover from this wet season will require a whole lot of love, tenacity, and money, so Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) has gathered a group of the most determined writers we could find and we’ve built them a raft.

With Captain Rebecca Sparrow at the helm, Writers on Rafts is floating all over Australia raising support and dollars for the Queensland Premier’s Disaster Relief Appeal.

Books2Flood: Many creches, kindergartens and childcare centres have lost a lot of resources in the 2011 floods, including precious books. We hope to connect these needy centres with publishers willing to support them with book donations. Organised by Brisbane author Nick Earls, Riverbend Books staff & the book industry.

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I am a novelist and short story writer, based partly in Australia, partly in Europe. I have had two novels published in the last two years by Kennedy & Boyd in Glasgow: “The Wizard from the Isles” and “Tribulation”. The third in the trilogy, “Dark Renaissance”, will be published in August this year for launch at the Edinburgh Book Festival. If you think it worthwhile, I would be happy to send you a signed copy of each of the two novels for inclusion in the auction.

Hello – My name is Richard Marshall – I’m a parent who uses a childcare centre called “Margaret Cribb ChildCare Centre”, which is in St Lucia.

Margaret Cribb and another centre near UQ in St Lucia were both destroyed in the recent floods. They are not-for-profit co-op type organisations and the insurance won’t cover the repair bills and restocking needed to get them back up.

There’s a lot of good work going on by a fine group of people in establishing a temp facility on UQ grounds, but a deal of money will still need to be raised. One way is via a raffle.

I’m writing to see if there’s the possiblity of organising a bundle of signed books by some local authors for the raffle?

I appreciate this is an unsolicited email and I’m sure you are getting plenty of requests, but value any help you can give.